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I’ve been buying a bunch of DVDs and Blu-Rays lately, of films I couldn’t find on any streaming service. And then Nika just fucking tweets about this service. Eastern European Movies has loads of amazing stuff. Nika, thank you. As soon as I can see past the next few weeks of work, I’m going to immerse myself in this site. The pricing goes from $3 for a day of streaming to $100 for unlimited use of the site forever.
Also, goddamn, look at this poster:
This is giving me much-needed life today. Another fine moment brought to you by Monument.
It’s Monday and I need to write 14 pages of script and I’m dying hi
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17 pages of script and a newsletter to write today, see you tomorrow
Comments closedMy arse is in this chair for 12 hours today, puzzling out two episodes of the show, so I want something gentle to soothe my buzzing brain and take my mind off my aching bones. This is perfect.
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Breakfast goods provided fresh from the chicken bums
Comments closedOut today, it seems. It’s on Amazon (UK) (US), so it’s probably everywhere, and Yellow Year are putting it out on vinyl. I’m just immersing my head in this for the rest of the day thank you satan
Yesterday, I posted a supercut of all the BBC1 television idents.
My friend Chris DiBona posted a response on Twitter. It turns out he got to see the model of the last physical effect for the classic “spinning globe” BBC ident, and I wanted to save the photos he posted. NEXUS ORTHICON DISPLAY DEVICE, you guys. Hey, Chris, that Pixelbook you gave me still works perfectly!
Someone jokingly asked me, a few months back, what I’d do if I were running a comics publishing company. They meant Marvel or DC. But that’s not me.
This is me:
That is 5.25 inches on one side and about 7.7 inches on the long side. It contains 96 pages within its perfect-bound card covers, and in this book 94 pages of them are comics.
And it’s black and white.
This is the old Paradox Mystery format, which, to my mind, did everything right. Except that each book was a three-part serial, released monthly. And bookstores, the natural audience for these works, do not accommodate monthly serials. Even Stephen King couldn’t make it work. Each one should have been a 96-page standalone work.
It is otherwise very nearly perfect as a format. All Andy Helfer had to do was to push back against everyone who wanted serial works, and say, no, these are going to be self-contained books for reading in a single sitting, like Georges Simenon’s MAIGRET books.
But it was not to be. Though I should note that this line produced A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, which became the film directed by David Cronenberg.
The Paradox books had a roughly unified trade dress, but it needed something just a little more flexible and a little more eyecatching. It needed Romek Marber, frankly. I’ve talked many times before about the Marber Grid, the template created in 1961 for Penguin Books.
I can daydream about setting Rian Hughes to generate his own Hughes Grid, right? And Rian styling them all with his own typefaces?
I could happily have spent much of my life just writing three of these a year. 90-page black and white stories in a comfortable format that makes you want to curl up with them for an hour or two. I could have had a rack of them like Ingmar Bergman movies by now.
The Paradox Mystery books are, of course, from the mid-Nineties. Before manga exploded in the bookstore market. What were outliers back then are possibly right in the zone today. Nobody’s listened to me about this over the last twenty years and nobody will listen to me about it now. And quite rightly, because I’m entirely mad.
I would only publish three kinds of graphic novels. Fiction, Documentary and Theory. I would go bankrupt in about eight minutes. I would love every second.
(Also. yes, I have had that copy of HUNTER’S HEART to hand since 1995. It’s a lost future.)
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